"Opportunity in a World-class Hydrocarbon Basin: Trinidad and Tobago’s Eastern Offshore Marine Province"

By: Lesli J. Wood (1) and Carolyn Roberts (2)

(1)Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas lesli.wood@beg.utexas.edu

(2)Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries, Trinidad & Tobago, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad croberts@energy.gov.tt

Published in the June, 2001 Bulletin, posted here, May 27, 2001.


Figure Six

Figure 6

Seismic and line drawing from the minibasin province in Trinidad’s EOM area showing the seismic facies and structure across the area.
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Figure 7

Schematic figure of the interbasin, escape sedimentation processes active across the minibasin tectonomorphic province.
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Figure 8

Seismic line showing piggyback basin from the compressional basin associated with tha Barbados Accretionary Prism illustrating the migrating depocenters characteristic of the piggyback basin type shown
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Figure 9

Schematic figure of the compressional piggyback basin province of the Trinidad eastern offshore marine area.
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